QCD Higher Order Corrections to $g_1 (x)$ at Small $x$

Abstract

The small $x$ behavior of the flavor non-singlet $g_{1}$ structure function is analysed numerically by taking into account the all-order resummation of $\alpha_{s} \ln^{2}x $ terms. We include a part of the next-to-leading logarithmic corrections coming from the resummed ``coefficient function'' which are not considered in the literatures to respect the factorization scheme independence. The resummed coefficient function turns out to give unexpectedly large suppression effects over the experimentally accessible range of $x$ and $Q^{2}$. This fact implies that the higher order logarithmic corrections are very important for $g_{1}$ in the small $x$ region.